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by appellations 7mo ago
The problem wouldn’t be your competitors cribbing your ideas, it would be more like letting anyone with a bone to pick audit you for minor compliance violations, customers relying on internal implementation details or judging you unfairly f
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by appellations 7mo ago
Author is Vice President of AI, 1X Technologies.
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by appellations 8mo ago
Are you saying people worked less than 40 hours a week or more than 40 hours a week in those organizations? I’m assuming over, but it’s unclear to me from the tone of your post.
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by appellations 9mo ago
Longer contracts are riskier. The benefit of having cheaper RAM when prices spike is not strong enough to outweigh the downside of paying too much for RAM when prices drop or stay the same. If you’re paying a perpetual premium on the spot p
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by appellations 10mo ago
Thanks for all your hard work!
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by appellations 11mo ago
Founding engineer is the worst role in tech
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by appellations 11mo ago
Best I can tell is that overflow is undefined behavior for signed ints in C/C++ so -O3 with gcc might remove a check that could only be true if UB occurred. The compound predicate in my example above coupled with the fact that the comp
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by appellations 11mo ago
Care to share a language where the compiler infers the semantic meaning of asserts and optimizes them away? I’ve never heard of this optimization.
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by appellations 11mo ago
Add(x,y): Assert( x >= 0 && y>= 0 ) z = x + y Assert( z >= x && z >= y ) return z There’s definitely smarter ways to do this, but in practice there is always some way to
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by appellations 1y ago
I forget there are people who don’t configure softwrap in their text editor. Some languages (java) really need the extra horizontal space if you can afford it and aren’t too hard to read when softwrapped.
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by appellations 1y ago
Apple has a history of adding sensors, security chips, etc. a few revisions before the feature they support launches. It’s a really good idea because it helps them sort out the supply chain, reliability, drivers, etc. without any customer i